Ethics and the History of Philosophy: Selected Essays

Born in a suburb of London and educated at Cambridge University, Charles Dunbar Broad taught at several universities before returning to Cambridge, where he reluctantly became Knightbridge Professor of moral philosophy in 1933. During the period between the two world wars, Broad was the clear and meticulous advocate of the traditional academic philosophy. In epistemology he defended the doctrine of representative perception; in metaphysics, the doctrine of mind-body dualism; and in moral philosophy, the objectivity of value and the cognitive character of moral judgments. Broad died in 1971.